Recent content by kalladin

Hi Monique, I make my own plastic coated slides. I dissolve plastic petri dishes (made by Falcon) in chloroform to make a 0.6% solution. My coating procedure involves dipping the cleaned slides into the solution for 10-15s then taking them out and immediately dipping them again for another...

Hi, I don't know if anyone here can help me. But I've lately been silver staining chromosome spreads for EM on plastic coated slides. However, when I do the water rinses after the staining procedure, my plastic coating just comes off and it infuriates me to no end as the whole spreading/staining...

Thanks Doc, Yeah I need it for an introduction to the report. What I've done was basically talk about oomycetes and its research significance.. then focused in on the gene we cloned (in this case it is actin gene). As of now my intro is pretty lame :( K.

I've been doing cloning experiments with Achlya ambisexualis. I'm writing a report but I haven't been able to find any background information whatsoever for the organism. I know it's an oomycete and therefore can write some stuff up about them.. but I can't find any specific info on this...

I guess to prevent people like quetzalcoatl9 from going over the top and blowing their caps off... most universities now have departments for Biochemistry and Biophysics that are separate, but immensely affiliated with the departments for chemistry and biology for the first, and physics and...

A teacher who doesn't like students asking questions can't be a very good teacher ^^ I'm not very knowledgeable, but what I know of gene databanks is that it's a collection of all organisms' sequences. For example, in the bank you would be able to find Arabidopsis thaliana gene sequence. So...

In my opinion, private healthcare is a really good idea. Some people are waiting for a long long time to get a minor surgery. This puts stress on the patient and their family/friends. If people are economically able to pay for private healthcare, I think that it should be available for these...

Funny how some of us can jest about the gruesome death of others...

Feelings are for pansies! But seriously, I try to be devoid of emotion in life.. and at night, sometimes I cry...

So let's say a person with HIV bleeds all over the shopping mall floor. Someone wipes it up and cleans it with disinfectant, but the virus will still remain on the floor. Of course, the virus is inactive without a host to propagate in. Some unfortunate kid runs around and falls down, scraping...

I remember from TV way back like a few years ago. Mosquitos are attracted to the stinky sweat smell.. like found under your knees, elbows, feet (especially FEET CHEESE!) I don't know.. any way to confirm this with publications?

I don't remember what I was watching.. but I think it was a show on discovery. The man claimed to cure his cancer by taking higher than normal doses of vitamin D..

Hello everybody... I have a question that I have been concerned with for awhile. I know the risk of HIV transmission through mosquitos is quite low and there has never been any examples of it happening. But this is based on the assumption that residual blood left on the mosquito's needle is so...

But what does excessive vitamin intake have to do with the presence or non-presence of a STD?

An example of the ORF would be: Imagine a good ORF that codes for a functional gene e.g. THE BIG FAT CAT ATE RAT We can call this ORF 1 where each word is a codon If we shift this ORF by just one nucleotide, e.g. HEB IGF ATC ATA TER AT... The whole sequence does not make...